Posted on 05/21/2023 3:51:57 AM PDT by george76
A California high school educator once named “teacher of the year” was arrested for having sex with a 16-year-old student, according to police.
Tracy Vanderhulst, a 38-year-old math teacher at Yucaipa High School, was charged with statutory rape on Thursday following an investigation into allegations that she had sexual intercourse with a minor, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said.
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Vanderhulst was booked into Central Detention Center in San Bernardino.
Her bail was set at $30,000, according to the sheriff’s department.
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Detectives said they believe there may be additional victims.
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The math teacher had previously been named the school’s teacher of the year in 2017,
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Age of consent in Kalifornia is 18. A 16 year old male, unless he is mentally impaired, is not a victim.
You need new glasses. That’s an 8 or 9, easy. Not only not guilty, the DA never even pressed charges.
Some of the bigoted comments here suggest there is a difference between boys and girls.
/s
Why would they do that? If she wanted a younger guy, I’m sure there are lots over 18. This behavior I will never understand.
They can even say for sure that this teacher is a woman?
LOL! Public “schools” are dumps. They don’t educate, they program and indoctrinate.
If this were a decent looking 38 year old male teacher involved with a 16 year old female student, would people here be saying “not guilty”, or that the 16 year old was “lucky?”
A couple of thoughts:
1. I think this is a lot more common than people think (male students and older female teachers). I’ve talked to some female teachers who have confessed attraction to their male students (though none admitted doing anything about it).
2. Just like young women are beauty objects to men, older women are attracted to young men
3. Many of them may have latent issues from their High school days and this is their way to live them out.
4. Like others, I don’t put younger males/older women in the same category as when the genders/ages are reversed. Why? Simply because young men are a lot more willing and less chance of psychological harm and no chance of pregnancy.
It’s also probably a status thing for a young male to do it with an older female teacher — especially a good looking one. Which is another reason it’s stupid for the teacher: does she really expect a high school boy is going to keep this to himself?
She was in love.
Yeah I think it’s ridiculous to pretend the boy was emotionally harmed by this.
Where were these teachers when I went to school??????
`I’ll bet the boys would disagree that they were “victims”’
The victims are the guys who “aren’t getting any.”
Probation
It’s not about love. It’s about power and control.
A 38-year-old woman and a 16 year-old boy? That is a huge age difference. If she is married with children, then that makes it even worse.
I remember a teacher I had in HS who used to say “remember me in the dark”. She was smokin hot and likely had a romp or 2 with some of the boys. Not me however. All I got were the memories.
Let’s “innovate”.
But if a priest does it, he’s evil.
Freeper hypocrites.
I bet you did.
Even for non-woke male teachers, they work in such a woke environment that ANY accusation of "sexual harassment" would result in firing and loss of license, with no right to defend himself from the accusation. The risk isn't worth it.
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